Folks -
I am observing some weird behavior in our application during shutdown, let
me see if I can explain this clearly.
Lets say I open 2 instances - A and B - of the application on my machine.

We recently upgraded a Windows 2000 Advanced Server with 2GB of memory
and dual processors to the 1.1 version of the .NET Framework. On this
server we are running .NET Windows Services. These services parse and
process about 15K text files a week, the largest of these files can

Am trying to attach a a process( a .Net application) to VS IDE. It is taking
nearly 3 minutes to attach the process to the IDE. I am using Visual studio
version 7.0.9466 and .Net framework 1.0, ver 1.0.3075.  This problem I
observed in two more machines with similar configuration. ...

I have been noticing in some cases that GC.GetTotalMemory is returning a
lower result than is shown in performance counters. For example, I have seen
GetTotalMemory report about 18MB of heap usage, while the performance
counters say it's around 26MB. I know that GetTotalMemory only ...

Some very basic questions here.  I have a VB.Net app that is using an SQL 2K
server as it's data source.  Everything is working fine but it's a little
slower than I would like.  So I've just run the index tuning wizard over the
SQL instance that I'm using.

Does anybody know what is the threshhold value for Thread contention per second perf. counter, i looked at the .NET Peformance document excerpt from .do
.NET CLR LocksAndThreads\Contention Rate / se
Threshold: No specific value
Significance: The counter displays the rate at which ...

We have a Windows service that's written in VB 6.0 using the Desware NT
Service Toolkit.  We call .NET Serviced Components through interop.  The CLR
kernel being used is the workstation kernel.  However, we are on a
multi-proc xeon server and we feel that the garbage collection ...

I have a windows gui application. It has performance problem. It runs well
at morning.
But in the afternoon, System becomes slower then extremely slow until you
restart the computer.

why an empty form keeps 7MB at memmory ?
when you minimaze and restore it decreases to 4MB ... i search for that but
i couldn't find a real explanation... ???

Hell
I m making  a C# windows application which connects to excel to retrieve live data( stock quotes which are feeded to this excel sheet from other program via internet). The data in excel sheet is continuously changing and I want it to be reflected in my C# windows application, ...

I have CR report compiled in exe...  in runtime do following command:
   Report.SetDatabaseLogon(sUser, sPwd, sServer, sNastaveni.Database)
i cant really understand why that statement cost 16 seconds !!!
thanks for yoour help

I've come across I strange scenario which I can't explain... Please Help
!!!!
1) I created a simple web service on a server
2) I created a proxy to the web server using the wsdl.exe tool

I developped a WebService in C# which is used by 2 applications. One is running on the "normal" Framework, the other on Compact FrameWork of Windows CE. From the Compact FrameWork, the first time a webmethod is called, we have to wait at least 3sec before having the response even ...

I'm wondering if it is good to use datasets for large amounts of data with
many users. I'm talking tables with 130,000 records and 15 columns. And we
want current data, so no cached data. Right now we are using an
OleDbDataReader and then just doing reader.Read() to go through the

  I am reading a PerformanceCounter - ".Net CLR Jit" category wit
  CounterName - "% Time in Jit".  I read - say every second o
  1/2 second.  Sometimes one of the values is way ove
  100 (percent) like 584 or 2893.   Has anyone else seen this